The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1903, Page 5

—— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1903. T NS ROLE HEHWAYMA Captured Herman Says He Is Hard Work- Farm Hand. MR IS That He Robbed puty Sheriff or Gave Battle to Posse. poe— NUCH STILL UNEXPLAINED. ich have now able by simple al laws OPTIMISTIC OF THE END. r the present the biologist w for allow, e to our complete ce, tc tmportant however, our knowl- ., who recognizes senomena. to scientific inv re same con come to the opposite have placed too great sis or have fall a poor or wrong interpretation ts. It is self-evident that the hinder, but of sclence.” view few can only progre: VOLCANO CAUSES MUCH UNEASINESS 'AT COLIMA Continues Active and Usual Showers of Ashes Shut Out Sunlight. M xico, March 5.—The vol- es active, a mew eruption n place last evening at half kK. A feeling of uneasiness 3 real terror prevails. An was accompanied wer of ashes, which cast t the atmosphere, | light. March 6.—The nic ashes continue near 1es 80 dense that objects 100 feet away. e Algiers Shows Friendly Feeling. ERS. March 5.—The arrival here United States cruiser Albany is out manifestations of imber of receptions being prepared and | xpressed that Washing- authorize the American fleet to here on the occasion of the visit of President Loubet to wh it i= expected, vesgsels rep- ifig British and Italian fleets will with the large French squadron in | duing honor to the visiting President. | The new railroad through Canada to the | 1 Coast will pass through vast re- | gions never heretofore expiored. A CHARMIN | Prologue boy A citizen grocer. His wife . | Ralph, his apprentice (the Knight | of the Burning Pestle) |DRAMATIS PERSONAE ..Mr. R. J. Sterrett .Mr. R. V. Anderson Mr. J. K. Bonnell AR i es .Professor S. S, Seward Jr. | Tam . o ...Mr. H. A, Halsey George ............Mr. E. V. Henly Younger apprentices, squire and | dwarf to the Knight. | Venturewell, n London merchant. SMr. WL J. his daughter . . > . A Miss M ma: | er for the hand of | Lmee..... Mr. E. R. Ma ought, a ne’er-do-well.... hisx wife. Jasxper, ap- | prentice over | of Luce . W. Thomas Michmel, young som of Merry- thought ....... Mr. €. E. Hannum Hont of the Bel Mr. 0. H Clark | 1inn Tapster .......... A barber's patient « Messenger Danci ng boy STAGE BOYS. Mr. D. M. Reynolds, Mr. L Russell, Mr. K. 0. Hadley. Mr. T. Cronyn, Mr. F. W. Powell. | | FIDDLERS. Mr. A. Scoville, Mr E. Waite, E. Brackett, Mr. V. E. M. GALLANTS. M_ Alden, Mr. M. Ste - A. La S TO GALLANTS, Carson, Master L. Master M. Tren .Mr. E. 0. James L. Kerr Mr. P. Edwards 0. Du F. B. Wing, r Mr. | Fowler, Mr. N. Collyer. plete Wit “The. Knight of the Burning Pestle” Is Re- b the Keenest of Humor and Brilliant Wit. at the opening of % The Prologue boy, the grocer and OUTLINE OF SCENES. l Introduction—A_ London theater, | play. his wife, and Ralph. ACT L ? Scene 1—Venturewell's house. 5 I Scene ack | ¥ t. o < RERR. N\, _‘J;;;%zss \//’/ 4 ~lareRRYTHOUGHT [/ /] | e ,’;\ Eminently lnterestlngi e | Scenes Delight Audience. BY GUISARD. depar Universit) s prodv der the original condit the Sophoclean tragady, **Antigone. night, under the auspices of the English b of the university, was produced in ve contemporary fashion of pre- “the true tor of *“The ht of the Burning Pestle,” “full of mirthe nd delight,” by Francis Beau- mont and John Fletcher, Gent., “first fed about the year of our Lord 1610, uid be difficult indeed to deter- of these supremely sug- e and valuable productions belongs terest and usefuln A representative audience wa Assembly Hall by the diverse 13 performance, and it is the fat humor of the /, the loves of and Prentice Jasper, the sorrows of Dame Merrythought with her s goodman, the delicious bombast nd 1t w who were looking merely for curious and Mstoric value in the production. Though much of the ocgasion of the satire has gone, the fun bears handsome comparison with that of our modern wits, and was provocative of much genuine mirth. The play lue as a comedy of manners of the period was also very effectively dem- onstrated in both its bearings as a satire upon the audiences and an arraignment of the dramatists and players of the day. From the technical historic side the pro- duction was also eminently interesting, the stage, furnishings, costumes and evergthing concerned being an exact re- production of Elizabethan dramatic acces- sories, so far as they are known. The whole work of the production, it should be said, has fallen upon the faculty and students of the university, and much credit is due them for the efficlent and workmanlike manner in which it ha‘ been carried out. N ELIZABETHAN ILLUSION. mmediately on entering Assembly Hall one was plunged into the thick of the Elizabethan illusion, excellently suggested by the help of the university Belascos, Prof. L. E. Bassett and H. R. Johnson, who are dreaming in black letter type and writing Thursday THVRSDIE for the nonce! Fronting one was a section of the old SBwan Theater of London, with its “pit” open to the sky; its weather beaten wiwelve-penny” boxes to right and left, for the aristocrats and masked ladies who dared scandal to see the play; the musi- cians’ box; its roofed stage that sheltered the players and such of the beaux who would spare sixpence for its shade and the privilege of exhibiting “good cloathes, a proportionable legge, a white hand, the Persian lock and a tolerable beard,” to the hoi polloi; its two entrances; its player's balcony at the back, where the actors, or restless young gallants lounged time away between acts; the play's title in rude lettering on white cloth stretched across the front; and, topping all, the bugle boy’s tower, from which three good | blasts called the play-going folk to time. Then, as almost three hundred years ago at the old Swan Theater, the bugle boy blew his summons to the people, who came across the Thames to the wicked attracted the knight of the burning pes- | ! tle, surprised into a keen enjoyment those '3 |4 | Scene Scene Scene Scene Scene Scene | Seene | Scene | | | Scene i Scene 3—The same. ! { | there are omitted scene 2, |and scene 2, |above outline met IV scenes 2 and | responds to act V scene 3. Venturewell and Jasper. Jasper and Luce. 2—The same. Venturewell and Humph- rey. Humphrey and Luce. 3—A grocer's shop. Raiph, reading a romanee. | Tim and George. | 4—Merrythought's house. | Mistress Merrythought,| Jasper, Michael and| Merrythought. ! ACT IL | 1—Venturewell's house. | 2, 3, 4 and 5—Waltham Forest. | 6-—Before the Bell Inn, Wal- tham. | 7—Venturewell's house. i | | S—Merrythought's house. ACT HIL 1—Waltham Forest. 2—Before the Bell In tham. 3—Before house. i 4—Before a barber’s shop,| Waltham. | S—Before Merrythought's | house. | ACT IV. 1—Before Merrythought's house. 2—Venturewell’s house. Merrythought's | (May-dny sceme interpolated.) ACT V. Scene 1—Venturewell’s house. | Scene 2—Merrythought’'s house. (Ralph’s farewell interpolated.) Of the standard text of the play aet IV met Vi hence in the correspond to act IV scenes 3 and of the text, and act V scene 2 cor- E3 1 | CLEVER AND TALENTED MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH CLUB, WHO VERY MATERIALLY | SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION. OF “THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE"” BEFORE A LARGE AND E THUSIASTIC AUDIENCE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY LAST EVENING. AIDED I | signed beyond the virtuous city limits, to see Master Francis Beaumont's and Master John Fletcher's (Gent) play of “The Knyght of the Burning Pestle.” And | then, as almost three hundred years ago, came trooping in fair, masked ladles in Damascus brocades and flambovant lace ruffs,with gallant courtiers in gay velvet doublets and hose, and some go to the twelve-penny boxes and some bring three- legged stools to the front of the stage, where now Master Richard Mansfield doth love to disport himself. Here they sit, | take out their long “churchwardens” and “make chimneys of their mouths” with Raleigh’s wicked weed. One takes out a | mirror and smooths his lovelocks, an- other buys oranges to eat, and tips the youth who brings round a candle to light his pipe. The ladies flirt with their gal- lants, the beaux gossip among themselves, and then, at last, the speaker of the pro- logue begins. From all that's near the court, from all that's sreat, ‘Within the compass of the city walls, ‘We now have brought our scene— But here, from among the audience, citizen grocer compels the youth to s lence, accuses him of - girding at the ! citizens and demands that the play’'s ti- tle, “The London Marchant,” shall be torn down and a new ome ' substituted. Though the grocer-critic has intended apparently to take his “pennorth” among the “groundlings” (who stand), he here climbs up on the stage and draws his {dame after him, together with their ap- | prentice, Ralph, take part in the play, as one that can show the other players what to do! TRAVESTY ON DON QUIXOTE. And here Master Beaumont neatly pro. ceeds to take it out of his critics and au- diences all round. “You are always crit- he says in Intent; “this is what I think of you who criticize: and | playhouse, that the authorities had con- [of the practical result of following, your iand satins, slashed sleeves fand leathern | whom they compel to- criticisms,”” for it must be remembered 1 that the gallants shouted their comments at the actors, encroached upon their movements and generally made ' them- selves disliked by their noise and high- handed behavior. The citizen-grocer and | his wife represent the popular point of view, for which Beaumont seems to en- tertain almost the respect of George. Ber- pard Shaw. In the deliclous travesty of Don Quixote that is thrust pell-mell into the play is found a burlesque of the cur- rent romantic drama that has points even for to-day’s weakness for swashbuckling. And we find the original tender tale of -a ‘prentice. youth for his master’s - daugh- ter, the interpolated adventures of the kright of the burning pestie and the drama .of the audience, all kept them- selves clearly distinct in the minds of the latter day spectators. Ralph's admission to the cast settled, and the title of the play changed to “The Knight of the Burning Pestle,” the worthy couple proceed to enjoy - them- selves as the play goes on. With a legend “Venturwels house” set against one of the roof pillars, the house of Merchant | Venturewell is designated. Enters then the aspiring ‘prentice and his master, who, dismisses the too ambitious youth from his service. - The father’leaves him and the youth, struck with despair, is about to go when Luce, the damsel herself, comes in, and they plight their faith just as we do to-day. The rival lover, approved by the stern parent, then comes on the scene, and is Informed by Luce that if he would have her he must run away with her, when she is naturally under-plotting to run away to her 'prentice lover. He consents, and they plan the affair, Scene thé second shows the citizen and his wife something impatient for the ap- pearance of their actor apprentice, who then comes in as a grocer—the shop suggested by a table that is carried in between acts. He comes in,” and with arms going wind- mill fashion and. great ade, begins his famous bombast. It is tham decided to make him a gallant knight in search of adventures, and his next appearance is a la: Don Quixote, in a fearsome helmet, and a syit of armor that was certainly not- tailored by Poole. The interest of Ralph’'s adventures culminates in a duel with Jasper, where Jasper shakes him like a great money-box, and sets him down still clattering on his hardware back. He comes in at the last to die—die the knight must, says Beaumont slyly, according to the popular canon—with his head transfixed by a huge comic-opera arrow. This part, the most difficult in the play, was excellently well essayed by Professor 8. S. Seward, who took it in Just the right mock heroic vein. His height also lent a good deal of personal illusion to the conception. Something more of elocutionary clear- ness would have added to the pleasure of Mr. Seward’'s work. PLAYER FOLKS WIN LAURELS. The cast throughout was adequate.” J. X. Bonnell made a thoroughly humorous and “sufficient citizen's wife, looking the part abundantly well In his red and green satin gown, and R. V. Anderson was ef- fective as the citizen himself. Jasper was pleasantly if a little timidly handled by C. W. Thomas, and as Mistress Luce Miss M. K. Gilman was charming with her sweet voice and personality. To the scene where she is weeping over her sup- posed dead lover—who~iles before her in the blackest of black coffins—Miss Gilman imparted a very quaint and pretty senti- ment. Merrythought, the happy ne'er-do-well who is always singing, is very cleverly managed by E. C. James, who sings the plaintive old ditties in a fashion that adds much to their enjoyment. Another very effective bit of work is done by the Humphrey of the cast, E. R. May, who gets quite a strong Elizabethan quality intc his portrait of the good-natured fool. Mr. Stack has the part of Ventureweil and fulfills its duties effectively, and R. J. Sterrett as the prologue boy has much to do and does it well. Miss F. L. Kerr is Mistress Merrythought, and comes well Ago Faithfully De- picted. o - into the Spirit of the part. C. D. McCo- mish furnished an excellent bit of comed; as the barber of Waltham, and the small- er parts are all well taken. The change of scenes was suggested throughout by written texts, brought on | in leisurely fashion by the prologue boy | at the close of each scene, and with prop- erties Chinese in simplicity—a chair or two, a “mossy bank,” a grocer's table— dragged in nalvely over the stage by‘the four stage boys. Five violins and a double bass furnished appropriate music, and nothing that could add to the naive illu- sion was forgotten. One excellent bit of the picture was at the front of the stage, | richly garbed gallants took Fred Fowler looming up like a Van Dyck Sir Philip Sidney in his cream and flame colored satin. But noth- ing was forgotten. 0 TP Mrs. Stanford Is Well Pleased. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March —Mrs. Stanford presented a handsome new cardinal curtain with the seal of the university on it to the studentbody for the presentation of the comedy. @ il il @ APPROVES THE VERDICT. Senate Indorses Findings Against the Corrupt Pilot Commissioners. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March Upon motion of Short- ridge, the Senate this afternoon dpproved the report of the Committee on Com- merce and Navigation, which was ap- pointed to investigate the charges of cor- ruption made by The Call against the members of the Pilot Commission. The committee aiso asked to be discharged, and its rcqug was granted. Senator Wolfe asked Shortridge whether he in- tended to make a speech, and the latter said there was no need of it, as the report speaks for itself. Shortridge afterward stated there was no need of his making a speech as The Call had proved all its charges. where the their ease, —_— Goes to Prison for Ten Years. SAN JOSE, March 5.—Milledge Ortega, a member of the notorious family of that name, was to-day sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in Folsom prison. He was | convicted of burglarizing the residence of George Lovely on the 15th of last Novem- ber. Ortega had previously served a term for grand larceny and a prior conviction was urged against him. Ortega is a brother of dack Ortega, now doing a life | sentence at San Quentin. Three other members of the family are graduates of reform schools. e AR Four Hundred Marines Go East. VALLEJO, March 5—Four hun- dred marines from the transport Sheri- dan were yesterday started east ona spe- | clal train for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Twenty-six marine prisoners on the She: dan were brought to Mare Island. Some of them are under heavy sentences, rang- ingfrom eight years down. The long term- erswill be sent to San Quentin. The others will do the balance of their time in the naval prison at Mare Island. Birmingham (England) barbers propose raising the price of a shave from %d to 1% (1 cent to 3 cents). | | biyman Phil Customs of Centuries| "ANFORD ENGLISH CLUB SUCCESSFULLY PRODUCES G COMEDY OF THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD 1 ¥ < e s v TANANA CLAIM SHOWS MILLIONS |Stampede Continues to 1 the Latest El ! Dorado. | | {Rich Pay Dirt Is Reported to Have Been Found on Five Creeks. Special Dispatch to The Calk DAWSON, March 5.—The latest and | most comsprenensive report of the Tanana strikes comes in a statement from Circle. There are 150 men building a town on the opposite side of the Tanana near the Gov- errment reservation. No bullding mate- }riala or mining tools are to be had. The town is called Tanana City. Lot jump- | Ing is fa and furious. Some provisions, | such as flour and canned meats, were to be had until about the middle of Janu- ary, but are all sold now. Pay running from 3 to 30 cents has been found on five creeks. The gravel varies from five to fifteen feet in thick- | ness, carrying pay nearly all the way. A gray streak seems to run through the gravel from one to feet below the muck, and from that streak to bedrock every pan is pay dirt. The muck is from six to elght feet thick. On Goldstream seventy men are work- ing taking out dumps. That creek is fif- teen miles long and in places three claims wide. All claims are full-size American claims. After the dis had been made on this creek claims were staked on each side of the discovery claim. and on all three claims pay dirt was found. done on all of them. Pe- is practically upper and which has be the first seems to be better than the but considerable trouble is creek staked lower stream, | encountered on the upper end with water. n Jack’), owner of ve holes to bedrock, length and 150 feet Jack Costa (“Ital No. 2 above, has t extending 800 feet in in width. Lieutenant Gibbs, United States signal service, is reported to have panned, | prospected and computed Costa’s claim and gave as his estimate that there is $2,000000 in sight on that claim alone. Claim owners are diligently searching for men to go to work, offering $I5 per s Labor is very scarce. There are now about 600 people in camp. Rampart, Weare and Nome, which are reported by wire direct from the diggings, | all report stampedes from their camps. | The Rampart stampeders have all reach- |ed there about a month ago and it is | | they that seem to be making the most | trouble by w | of shotgun demonstration. ELECTION LAW AMENDED. Committee Listens to Arguments and | Makes Important Changes. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 5.—The new election law | introduced by the Assembly and Senate committees on elections was amended this evening by the committee. Assem- tanton presided. Judge Chatles E. Snook represented the Repub- lican party, Garret McEnerney the Dem- ocrats, A. B. Nye the Governor and Jake Steppacher the Republican State Commit- | tee. The committee set aside party feel- |ing and discussed the new law from a | broad standpoint. The bill will be amend- ed as follows: If a voter stamps in a circle at the head | of one of the party columns and also stamps in the voting square after the | name of any candldate in the same or any | other column, or writes the name of a person for such office in the blank c umn, such act does not invalidate his bal- lot, but his vote must be counted for the candidate opposite whose name the cross is made, or for the person whose name is o written in the blank column. As to all other offices the ballot must be counted as a stralght party vote for the candi- dates for the offices under the circle so stamped. When, however, there are two or more persons to be elected to the same office, and the voter places a cross opposite the name of a candidate not in the party column, beneath the circle so stamped, or writes a name in the blank column for such office, then the ballot cannot be | counted as for two candidates for such office designated in the voter's party column, except in favor of those oppo- site whose name he also stamps a cross. No mark upon a ballot which is un- authorized by this act shall be held to in- | validate such ballot unless It shall ap- | pear that such mark was placed thereon | by the voter for the purpose of identify- | ing such ballot. If the name of the same | person is printed more than once on a ballot as a candidate for the same office the placing of a cross opposite such name in more than one of the different places | where it s so printed must not be regard- !ed as putting a distinguishing mark on | the ballot, and it must be counted as one | vote for such persen. it GOVERNOR SIGNS BILLS. Measures Passed by Legislature Now | Become State Laws. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 5.—Governor Pardee to- night affixed his signature to four bills, | one of which was the new bank bill and | the others were as follows: Senate bill No. 252, by Tyrrell of San | Francisco, is an act to protect the own- lers of bottles, boxes, siphons and kess used in the sale of soda water, mineral | and aeratea waters, porter, ale, cider and cther beverages. It provides that the re- quiring, taking or accepting of any de- | posit for any purpose, upon any bottle, box, siphon or keg, shall not be deemed to constitute a sale of such property. Assembly bill No. 12, by Duryea, re- lates to llens of mechanics and others. The bill amends the present law on me- chanic llens and sets forth under what conditions mechanies may have llens on property on which they have labored. Assembly bill No. 25, by Copus, relates to the admission of children in the pub- lic sehools of the State. The present law is amended in behalf of deaf mutes. It provides that in cities or school districts in which separate classes have been or may hereafter be established for the in- struction of the deaf, children may be admitted ta such classes at the age of I years. Senator "Welch introduced a sim- flar bill in the upper house and both leg- islators worked hard for its passage. i < Suspected Thief Is Under Arrest. PORT COSTA, March 5.—A man giving the name of John Burton was arrested here to-night by Officers Kay and Ahern on a telegram from the Los Angeles au- thorities. Burton had shipped a telescope grip by express from Colton. The grip cdntained about twenty-five watches and fifty rings alleged to have been stolen in Los Angeles. Burton was arrested when he called at the express office fer the Lsrip